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DATES OF CHOLA KINGS.
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The five dates Nos. 145-149 are of the reign of a king Rajadhiraja Rajakesarivarman, and are taken from inscriptions every one of which begins with the words kadal saluda. The first four dates work out regalarly on the assumption that this king commenced to reign between (approximately) the 28th February and the 30th March A.D. 1183. With such a commencement of his reiga :
This date, No. 145, corresponds to Monday, the 30th March A.D. 1164, which was the 7th day of the month of Mesha, and on which the 6th tithi of the bright half of the first Vaisakha) ended 19 h. 3 m., while the nakshatra was Punarvasu, by the Brahma-siddhanta from 7 h. 13 m., according to Garga from 9 h. 51 m., and by the equal space system from 21 h. 40 m., after mean sunrise. This equivalent of the original date night perhaps be objected to on the ground that the nakshatra was Punary&Bu only from 7 h. 13 m. (or later) after mean sunrise; and in the case of the date No. 106, above Vol. VIII. p. 263, where also the nakshatra was found to be Punarvasu from 8 h. 32 m. (or later) after mean sunrise, I have myself stated that that nakshatra in the original date might have been quoted erroneously instead of the immediately preceding nakshatra Ardra. But the two dates together now seem to me to show that in either case there was some special reason for quoting the nakshatra Punarvasu, instead of the nakshatra Ardrâ in which the moon was at the commencement of the day.
148.- In the Kapardiśvara temple at Tiruvalasjuli. 1 Svasti [éri] [11] Kadal sålda pår-mâdarum .
. 5 . .. .. . [ko] Rajakesari vanms]r. A[p] Tribhuvnnachchakravasttil. 6 ga! Sri-R[a]jadhirajadêvarku [y]ånda [84]vadu Sim(ha)-n[@]yar[ru] [a]para
pakshattu [dv] Ada[siyu]m [Ti]7 (nga]t-kilamai ya]m perra [Puņa]r[pa]sat[tu) na[1].
“In the [8]th year of the reign) of king Rajakesarivarinan alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Rajadhirajadêva,- on the day of Punarvasu, which corresponded to a Monday and to the twelfth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Simha."
The date corresponds to Monday, the 10th August A.D. 1170, which was the 14th day of the month of Simha, and on which the 12th tithi of the dark half (of Sråvapa) commenced 2 h. 3 m., while the nakshatra was Punarvasu, 3 by the equal space system and according to Garga for 17 h. 44 m., and by the Brahma-siddhanta for 17 h. 4 m., after mean sunrise.
147.-In the Tyagarajasvamin temple at Tiruvarur. 1 [Svao] (sti] Sriḥ 11l-- Kadal sůlnda pâr=8[lo]n-disni . . . . . 7 . kov-Irájakénariparmar-&ga Tribhuvanachchakravattiga! fri-Rajadhirajadóvarku
yÅndu 10[&vadu) Mina-na (yarrju pûrvva-pakshattu trayodasiyun-Jevvåy-kkilamai
yam perra Magattu n.
“In the 10th year of the reign) of king Rajakesarivarman alias the emperor of the three worlds, the glorious Rajadhirajadêva,- on the day of Magh, which corresponded to & Tuesday and to the thirteenth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Mina."
1 Por other dates with nakshatra, which also, if I may say so, commenced some time after sunrise, compare ..g. Nos. 33, 47, 86, 105, and 121 of this series.
· No. 627 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1902.
* A 12th tithi joined with the nakshatra Punarvasu is called jayanti; it is a mand-doddaft. This may be the reason why the 12th tithi has been quoted in the original date ( a current lith).
• No. 540 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1904. The word áoads seems to be denoted by a flourish added to the symbol for ten.
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